Law in the Crisis of Empire 379-455 AD

This is a new book from an eminent and well-respected scholar. A work of reference; an essay in the analysis of style; a contribution to the prosopography of the late Roman quaestorship; a reflection on the fall of the western and the survival of the eastern Roman empire: the book combines all four. Using his innovative method of analysis, already successfully employed in his highly-acclaimed Emperors and Lawyers (2nd edn 1994, OUP), the author examines the laws of a
crucial period of the late Roman empire (379-455 AD), a time when the West collapsed while the East survived. He allots the laws to their likely drafters and shows why the eastern Theodosian Code (429-438 AD), intended to restore the legal and administrative unity of the Roman empire, came too late to save the
West. The accompanying Palingenesia on an accompanying disk will enable scholars to read the texts chronologically and to judge the soundness of the arguments advanced.

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1. Law in the Age of Crisis; EASTERN LAWS AND QUAESTORS; 2. Theodosius I: the First Decade (379-388); 3. Theodosius I: Flavianus and the Later Years (388-395); 4. Arcadius (394-408) and Eutropius Quaestor (396-9); 5. Theodosius II: Towards the Code (408-437); 6. Understanding the Theodosian Code; 7. Theodosius II: Beyond the Code (438-450); WESTERN LAWS AND QUAESTORS; 8. Valentinian II and Maximus (383-392); 9. A View from Rome: Law in the Historia Augusta; 10. Honorius: the Milan Period (395-402); 11. Honorius: the Ravenna Period (402-423); 12. Valentinian III and Galla Placidia (425-437); 13. Valentinian III: the Later Years (438-455); TABLES; Table 1. List of Imperial Quaestors of the Theodosian Age; Table 2. List of Legal Texts cited with references to Palingenesia; Bibliography; Index; Palingenesia of Constitutions of the Theodosian Age 379-455 (on an accompanying disk)

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